Pickup Help

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Pickup Help

Post by Libtoem » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:30 pm

Ok so have a seymour duncan hot rail pickup for the bridge.I have installed it in my Strat,the problem is the pickup has way to much treble and I mean alot even with 250k pots is still way to much.I threw in another pickup just to make sure and its sounds great with the 250k pots.So is my hot rail pickup messed up,I installed it correctly as I have JB JR which is the same wiring.
Any help would be great.

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Re: Pickup Help

Post by dug » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:40 am

I have one of those in my duo sonic.
I think they just sound kinda bad personally. sorry not any help  :'(

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Re: Pickup Help

Post by Libtoem » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:13 pm

Yea I got it working(had to rewire it again) its just I don't like the pickup to much.

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Re: Pickup Help

Post by analogsystem » Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:10 pm

Yeah....those hotrails stink.  Try one of the Dimarzio Area noiseless if you are trying to cancel the hum but want the strat sound.  If you want a real humbucker sound in there, why not put another mini JB in there?  The one you mentioned is in another guitar that you like I presume?
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